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Man steals golf cart, charged with DWI

A Columbia County man is accused of taking a golf cart on a drunken joy ride in Glens Falls last night.

Police say Craig Turczyn, 25, of Germantown stole a golf cart used by security at Finch Paper and took it for a ride.

Police pulled him over a short distance from the paper Company and charged him with possession of stolen property and aggravated DWI.

They say Turczyn attended the Billy Currington concert at the civic center and his blood alcohol concentration was 0.23 percent.

Contractor finds thousands in Queensbury Ceiling

QUEENSBURY- Imagine finding thousands of dollars hidden in the walls or ceiling of your house, that's exactly what happened to a home owner in Queensbury Monday.

A contractor renovating a woman's kitchen found a paper bag hidden in the ceiling with $15,000 dollars inside. The contractor gave the money to the home owner who says she will use it to pay for the renovations.

She told the Post Star she does not plan to contact the previous owner of the house

Americans desire time travel, mind reading powers

	Americans desire time travel, mind reading powers

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) - Being able to fly would be nice, so would invisibility. But given a chance to pick one superpower, more Americans say they would want to travel through time or read other people's minds.

Time travel and mind reading tied for first place in a Marist College poll released Tuesday. Both superpowers received 28 percent of the votes out of five choices. Flying came in third followed by the ability to teleport and invisibility.

Pollsters surveyed 1,020 people across the country Nov. 15 through Nov. 18. The margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points.

      

(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

'You've Been Jimmered'

They love Glens Falls High School basketball legend Jimmer Fredette out in Salt Lake City.  The BYU basketball star is the subject of a new song called "You've Been Jimmered."

The recording artists behind the song, who call themselves the Jimmer Jammers, include Jon Carter -- a morning radio DJ in Salt Lake City -- and former BYU football coach LaVell Edwards.  Their song is to the tune of Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive."

WNYT lights it up like it's 'Dynamite'

We were so impressed by what the students at Monument Mountain Regional High School did that we were inspired to create our own lip dub.

Skidmore students take it off in name of charity

SARATOGA SPRINGS - They take it all off, covering up only with tools of their trade or hobby. They're in all of their naked glory. Skidmore College students posed nude for a calendar that will raise money for a Ugandan orphanage.

For theater major Elly Smokler, being shot in the buff is not so tough.

"It was very liberating and silly and harmless," Smokler said.

Smokler is one of 90 Skidmore students to bare all. But during this age where everything ends up on the Internet, they aren't concerned what a prospective employer might think.

"I don't know if I'd want work for someone that was concerned about this. I'm really proud of what I've done," said senior English major Christopher Weigl, who  produced and appears in the calendar.

Car collides with watercraft

WARRENSBURG- It's not often officers are called to respond to an accident involving a jet ski and a car, but that's exactly what the Warren County Sheriff's Office had to deal with Thursday afternoon.

Around 4:55 p.m. police were called to a property damage accident on I-87 in the town of Warrensburg. They say a 60-year-old Brant Lake woman was driving her 2000 BMW just North of the East Schroon River Road overpass when she hit a 6-foot long, 1994 Kawasaki personal watercraft that was laying in the road. The driver wasn't able to see the craft as that section of road is unlit.

The woman was uninjured in the accident but her car had to be towed from the scene. The watercraft was completely destroyed.

The Sheriff's Office is now trying to figure out just who the craft belonged to. It was registered to a Wilmington, NY, address but the registered owner told investigators that she had sold it recently.